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Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Legal Reader has kindly published an article I submitted (pro bono) that tells a brief story on how just months after I retired from NHTSA to work on improving care for crash victims, I learned an important insight on rollover deaths, injuries, and the corporatized legal system.
Please see how I learned an important lesson. 

See https://www.legalreader.com/rollover-crashes-cheaper-if-they-die/
Rollover crashes kill thousands of Americans every year. 

The latest published NHTSA data is for the year 2018. 

Table 115 attached shows that in that year 6,514 Americans died in Rollover crashes.  Data is also available there for occupants of cars, trucks and vans by State and Vehicle Type.
Rollover crashes also result in many thousands more serious injuries each year such as spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries,

Hopefully publishing this story will help build a Safer America.
Lou

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Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
The work of a Washington Post Political Cartoonist Mr. Tom Toles has inspired me to write an article advocating that the media give the people just a little more information on the judicial branch.
Legal Reader has kindly published an article that I submitted “pro bono”.  See it at
https://www.legalreader.com/we-the-people-can-fight-for-justice/
I ask that the media adopt a practice of naming the judges and Justices in articles on decisions and adding an asterisk indicating the party that nominated them to the courts as follows:  (R*) or (D*).

Some may think this will politicize the Judiciary.  I believe not to do so is to perpetuate a myth that the courts are apolitical.  It leaves people in the dark – Blind, Ignorant, Gullible and vulnerable to BIG powerful interests.
My experience and the current state of affairs suggests we the people need this information to be more knowledgeable citizens.
I welcome your comments.
Thanks,
Lou

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Needless deaths with no end in sight.

Legal Reader has kindly published an article I submitted pro bono in hopes that it might help at least a little.
Please see https://www.legalreader.com/corruption-cdc-and-needless-loss-of-lives/

I have long hoped and worked toward “Building A Safer America”.

See https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/assets/July2013-MonthlyReport-BuildingaSaferAmerica.pdf

But history shows us that the corruption is so pervasive and persistent that lives are lost needlessly and seemingly endlessly in large part to endless political corruption.

Sadly,
Lou

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Lou Lombardo
www.CareForCrashVictims.com

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Sad to report the passing of a great auto safety leader Dr. Rolf Eppinger.  His work leaves a legacy to humanity that continues to prevent tragedies world wide.
Legal Reader kindly helped get the word out.

World’s Loss of an Auto Safety Giant: Rolf Eppinger 1942 – 2020

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Legal Reader has published a Pro Bono article I submitted on the 2020 Election.
It gives me no pleasure to write this article, but I believe the public needs to know what is happening to us, and how, and why.

https://www.legalreader.com/big-law-vs-we-the-people/
Hopefully it will help – at least in down ballot races.
Following the money is the first step in reducing the corruption.

Sadly,
Lou

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

We are living and dying from the invisible violence of the corona virus.   By Earth Day April 22, 2020 the virus has resulted in more U.S. deaths in 2020 than are killed in car crashes in an average year.

I have just written an article published by Legal Reader on the 50^th Anniversary of Earth Day.  

50th Anniversary of Earth Day & Loss of Public Health Protections

The idealism of the months after the first Earth Day that I observed was exciting.   I had the privilege of participating in the Clean Air Car Race that summer.   I described my experience at

Climate Change Leadership From California Officials

The idealism expressed on and after Earth Day was soon subverted.   Months later the loss of Public Health protections began under the Nixon Administration. The Nixon Administration transferred the air pollution program, in which I worked, from the PHS to the new EPA at the end of 1970.  

EPA managers were heard to make sick jokes celebrating the downgrading of the mission from protecting people to protecting birds and bunnies.

Within a year, auto company executives were meeting with Nixon seeking relief from auto standards on air pollution and safety.  See 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rollover/nixon/

More historical landmark documents of the times are at

1970s Pollution Control Efforts

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community:

We live in an era of danger from the invisible violence of the corona virus. And in danger from more than 40 years of corporate capture of many regulatory agencies including NHTSA.  

We increasingly need information to protect ourselves.

As the people of the U.S. approach our 4 millionth death and billionth injury from vehicular violence there is one valuable source of safety information available to us.  

I have just written an article published by Legal Reader on the new 2020 Car Book.  

I think of the Car Book as a Tragedy Preventer.  If you think I am exaggerating read the article and the evidence.  It is at

The Car Book 2020 – Tragedy Preventer

Car Book information can save you time, money, and aggravation, and may save your life – if you use it to make wise decisions.

Here’s how you can order the 40^th Anniversary (and final print copy): https://www.autosafety.org/books-reports/

And here’s how you can access the online version: www.thecarbook.com

Center for Auto Safety

202-328-7700